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ROWin’ with the Motion….ROW Update #13

Someday, I may get back to the long, rambling essays I often write for these updates.

Today, though, is not that someday, and here’s why:

I have a headache.

I have a living room filling up with miscellaneous camping supplies. The children and I are attending the Always Learning Live May Symposium in Massachusetts this weekend; our first camping trip of the season). First trips always seem to involve more chaos than those later in the season, as we transition…

I have photos to add and a story to write.

I have hometending, packing, and organizing awaiting me.

I am more focused, right now, on the actual goals, and our weekend plans, than on deep musings. It’s getting to our active season, and I don’t want to still my busy mind long enough to get all pithy.

I have lots of clarity dawning, but….it’s not ready, just yet.

So, for now, I am just going to run down my progress, and add some pictures….

First iris of the spring, and the promise of many more….

Round 2 Goals:

Reading:

Read at least as many books as the number of the month (4 in April; 5 in May; 6 in June) from my To Be Read piles.

I submitted my flash fantasy fiction story, “Sarjyn and the Kingdom of Man Above” to the Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette.

Within several hours, I received back what appears to be a form letter, and which has me puzzled, as it was an attempt to sell my a writing workshop, and contained no acceptance, rejection, or any specific references to the piece I submitted….

Freshly mown front yard….

I am in the process of investigating a few other markets for flash fiction:

I have found the next three chapters, and done a quick edit/reformatting of Chapter 10 (which will become Chapter 3), and Chapter 11 (which will be Chapter 4). It is now ready for inputting to Scrivener.

I have added Chapter 3 to my Scrivener Chameleon’s Dishbinder.

I have rough edited and reformatted Chapter 12; it is prepared for its future addition to my Scrivener binders.

Create story arc for Blood and Breath.

I have added Chapters Eight and Nine to the story arc.

As I suspected, the reconstructed version is drifting from the direction I know the last draft took. I’m a little sad about it, but accepting. It’s like a semi-rewrite, and I imagine the story will end up better for it.

Snake charmer…and flinger!

Clean up computer downloads, documents, photos, and other clutter – move it or lose it!

A few weeks ago, I placed all my writing-related files in a folder labeled Writing Bullpen.

This was a definite improvement over searching through all my document files for them.

However, there were dozens of files there, and they were not organized.

I have deleted redundant or unnecessary files, and organized the rest in subfolders.

My Writing Bullpen is now a well-organized home for all the writing projects I currently want close to hand.

So there are my accomplishments for the last three days. I may or may not do a Monday check-in (it won’t be Sunday, as we will be returning home then, and, after two days camping in the company of other unschoolers, I know from experience that we will all be blissfully exhausted.

I will not have regular (and perhaps no) internet access over the weekend, so I won’t be as visible as I generally am. I have structured my writing so that I can focus on things that can be done offline suring the weekend. Although this is a symposium, and there will be speakers I want to hear, activities I want to participate in, children to be with, and social gatherings to attend, I know that there will also be the freedom to read and write.

I’m planning to write my Story a Day (in a notebook or in LibreOffice); to finish The Shelters of Stone if I haven’t before then; to begin a book review or two (I have a growing stack of books waiting for their turns); and to work on the children’s quarterly reports, which are due on June 1. I may do some, all, or even none of those things.

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I am myself. I own my life, and live with three other people who own theirs. My intention is to do only those things that bring me joy, and to give myself wholly to those things I do.
Writing has been my passion throughout my life, and this will become the home for my writing life...because it brings me great joy!
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Headaches are a fact of life for me. I have a high pain threshold and usually bounce back quickly.

The stencil came from a Crayola Color Wonder kit. The spin stencil is a Barbie set we got somewhere, used – I have no idea where, but it’s been here for a few years, mostly ignored till then…and now it’s out of use again….

I haven’t tried it, but it does produce pretty pictures and lots of happiness. =)